Insect and Disease Identification Thread

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@kakasamo

How do you get a cohesive coat on smooth skin plums?

I’m strictly apples, so I’m not the one to know. Here’s an old thread on the topic:

First time using surround

I start with 3 cups per gallon the first spray and 2 or so cups per gallon after that. Don’t use nufilm with Surround, you want it to flake off on the bugs and a sticker can defeat that.

I defer to the previous posters in this thread:

Insect and Disease Identification Thread

@kakasamo My impression is that it gets on the limbs, leaves, etc which the insects walk on, start grooming themselves, and never get to the fruit. I’ve used it on smooth skinned fruit like plums with only sparse coverage on the actual fruit at best, but it was still effective.

Insect and Disease Identification Thread

If you check a Surround bag, it says on the bag NOT to use sticker with it. Not only sticker will cause Surround clay not to flake (flaking is what is needed as flaking particles irritate those bugs). Sticker will also help Surround stick to skin of fruit very well, too well. Ask me how I know.